Najib Abdul Razak’s defence counsel, Shafee Abdullah, has argued that the former prime minister never interfered in any 1MDB-related investigations as a mitigating factor to his guilty verdict for 25 charges linked to the scandal.

Addressing High Court judge Collin Lawrence Sequerah, Shafee claimed that Najib had also given his full cooperation to authorities investigating the 1MDB scandal, even when he was still in power.

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